Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 07:46, H.S. <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Fri,21.Nov.08, 17:04:23, H.S. wrote:
>>
>>> Mostly I connect between different machine via SSH. So I can open an X
>>> display. That gives the video but no sound on my local machine.
>>
>> So you want the sound on the local machine?
>
> er, yes. The sound should be on the same machine where a video is being
> played.
>
>>
>> I don't get it, if you mount a samba share all applications on the local
>> machine (sound player, gqview) will use it just like a local storage. Or
>> am I missing something? Maybe you should tell us exactly what machines
>> you have and where you want the storage, respectively the output to be.
>
>
> I tried that. Let us say I have a machine with samba running, called M,
> and a shared folder on it called Videos. And I want to play a video on
> machine called A.
>
> I can browse the samba share on M from A using smb://M/Videos in
> Konqueror. If I then try to play a video (on A) this way, it appears
> that A is first copying the whole video data to somewhere locally (maybe
> in /var on A) before playing it. This doesn't seem right in the sense
> that A is not treating smb://M/Vidoes as a local storage. Or (more
> likely) I am doing some wrong with the samba setup.
That is because you are using Konqs native smb support. If you mounted
the share you would navigate Konq to file:///mount/smb/ or whatever.
Some other apps (eg xmms2) also have native smb support, and can
access shares without them being mounted.
> Related question: this method of installing a samba server on a machine
> and putting all multimedia files on shared directories and then
> accessing those shared directories from the machine one wants to play
> the media on, is this one of the methods to do this kind of thing?
Yes
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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